Re: Obscure languages
From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 7:28 |
At 04.52 p.m. 29.09.2001, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank George Valoczy" <valoczy@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Obscure languages
>
>
> > If you want, I can help you with learning Votian
> > (Uralic/Finno-Ugric/Balto-Finnic; spoken by approx. 25 people in 5
> > villages [incl. Krakolye and Luzhitsy] in Leningrad Oblast, north of
> > Ivangorod in Russia), youngest speaker is in his early 60s). Obviously I'm
> > not a native speaker, but my knowledge of it is thorough enough that I
> > could carry on a conversation with a Vote in the unlikely event that I
> > were to meet one. However, I do use it occasionally in speaking with
> > Estonians, sometimes with amusing results.
> >
>
>
>Yes, I'd love that!, how can you help?
Can I join in the fun too?
Tristan
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